I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out.

I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.

I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action - as we'd say in Scotland.

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

I say embrace the total geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life is too short to be cool.

The Reverence of God is reverence for life.

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that we are legislators or authors of the law.

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

I struggled academically throughout elementary school

All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. Its kind of self-therapy.

The only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.

To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.

An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.

To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.